THIS IS COCODRILO, ISLE OF YOUTH, CUBA, THE LA D OF FROZE DREAMS. THE DREAMS OF CAYMAN ISLAnDERS, ARRIVING TO HER SHORES AT THE START OF THE CENTURY In SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE. THE DREAMS OF THE OCEAN, ASSUMING A TRULY VIBRANT, TEEMInG FORM OF HERSELF. AND MY OWN DREAMS, TO BACKTRACK On THE PATH OF TiME, REWIND THE FORCES OF PROGRESS/DESTRUCTION, SIT WITH THOSE WHO LIVE SIMPLY And in COMMUNIOn WITH THE EARTH (IMPERFECTLY, TRAGICALLY, BEAUTIFULLY) AND TO TELL THEIR STORIES In THE NAME OF PLAnETARY HEALING. CREATInG THIS SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS WAS AN EMOTIONAL PROCESS FOR ME, InVOLVING DEEP BELLY LAUGHTER, SISTERLY BONDS, BLOODY WOUNDS, THE enDLESS HELP OF An INSPIRING COMMUNITY LEADER, GOODBYE TEARS, AND THE KinD OF TEARS THAT COME WHEn TWO PEOPLE FROM COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLDS SIT TOGETHER IN SILENCE, REALIZING THEY UnDERSTAND EACH OTHER DEEPLY, ALL THE WAY FROM THE CENTERS OF THEIR SOULS TO THE FAR REACHES OF INTERCOnnECTED EXISTENCE.